Door
v. State Fund & UEF [5/5/04] 2004 MTWCC 42 Business
with at least fifty-one percent Native American ownership is exempt
from workers' compensation insurance coverage requirements only if its
operations are exclusively on a reservation. The exemption is inapplicable
to a trucking firm whose trucks utilized roads outside the reservation
to deliver goods even though the goods originated and ended within the
reservation.

Door
v. State Fund & UEF [5/5/04] 2004 MTWCC 42Business
with fifty-one percent Native American ownership is not exempt from workers'
compensation insurance coverage requirements where an integral part of
its business occurs outside the reservation even though it hires the off-reservation
work to be performed by an independent contractor. A cattle ranching operation's
trucking of cows from upper to lower pastures is an integral part of the
business even though the trucking was done by an independent contractor.
§ 39-71-401(1)(m), MCA (2001).